Software Engineer, Bitgo
Go Accounts
$150-180k
+ Equity and an annual performance bonus
5 days a week in office
Digital asset financial services for instuitutions
Job no longer available
Digital asset financial services for instuitutions
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$150-180k
+ Equity and an annual performance bonus
5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
BitGo's mission is to deliver trust in digital assets.
Role
Who you are
- We're seeking forward-thinking engineers excited to build at the forefront of the crypto space, while proactively embracing AI to amplify their impact and output
- Our team values open communication, transparency, taking ownership, and a high level of craftsmanship
- We're looking for coworkers who share our vision and mission: to deliver trust in digital assets
- Experience and a strong interest in fintech, cryptocurrency, or blockchain technology
- Enthusiasm for exploring and integrating AI-powered coding assistants and tools
- 3+ years of proven experience in back-end and server-side development
- Great at algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis
- Strong experience with Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB
- Strong experience with RESTful API design
- Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures
- Experience with event-driven architectures
- Experience with unit and functional testing and debugging
- Ability to move quickly and adjust course as needed in a fast-paced environment
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or another technical discipline from a top university
Desirable
- Familiarity with ledgering system concepts or their application in traditional FinTech or banking environments
- Experience developing consumer-facing crypto products
- Proven experience building public-facing APIs in a production environment
- Ability to work full-stack and familiarity with React
- Familiarity with any of the following: digital wallets, DeFi protocols, smart contracts, token standards
What the job involves
- BitGo is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Go Accounts organization and help us build resilient, robust services that enable customers to securely store and access their cryptocurrency while meeting compliance requirements around the world
- This role will require being full-time onsite at our San Francisco office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving
- You'll design and build scalable, well abstracted, and robust APIs, libraries, and services to empower our API-first platform
- Own functionality and scalability features by taking responsibility from inception to deployment and customer integration
- Expose and document functionality to the UI, third-party developers, and our internal and external tooling
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
- Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to understand and refine product requirements
- Provide mentorship to your peers in the broader engineering team through code reviews and education on best practices
Our take
The digital asset industry is maturing, with asset companies looking to shore up their positions by adding secure custody capabilities. This is good news for BitGo, an independent, regulated cryptocurrency custodian company providing security, custody, and liquidity solutions.
BitGo’s flagship multi-signature wallet solution helps its clients mitigate risk and optimise capital efficiency. The company has subsequently expanded to also cover a number of areas that are critical for any holder of major crypto assets, like portfolio and tax management. In this, BitGo was smart to focus exclusively on institutional clients: there’s a huge appetite among larger players to expedite the mainstreaming of crypto, and they’ll need precisely BitGo’s tools to get there.
BitGo was in talks to be acquired by PayPal, and most recently, by Galaxy Digital, which speaks to a strong institutional confidence in the crypto wave. Despite a rocky 2024 for the digital assets (which now sees BitGo suing Galaxy Digital for pulling out of the acquisition deal), BitGo has manoeuvred itself into a central position to capitalise on what, now, seems a near-inevitable period of mass adoption.
Exemplifying this, the BitGo Ventures wing of the company was launched in 2024 to partner with and invest in cutting-edge blockchain and fintech startups, whilst the company saw revenue rocket to $4.19 billion in H1 2025. It completed an IPO bid in Q1 26, which is fitting considering its growth
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Insights
-26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2023
$100m
SERIES C
Oct 2018
$16m
SERIES B
Total funding: $170.5m
Company benefits
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision plans
- Catered lunches, fresh snacks, and gourmet coffee
- Commuting made easy with company-paid Caltrain passes
- Competitive compensation, stock options, and 401k plan
- Top-end computer equipment to power your work
- Flexible vacation time
- Remote/hybrid friendly with physical location workspaces
Company HQ
Downtown, Sioux Falls, SD
Leadership
Mike Belshe
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Director of Engineering at Good Technology, who went on to found Cookout Software - and then move to Google as a Software Engineer/Development Manager when the latter company bought out the startup. Has served as BitGo CEO for over a decade.
Ben Davenport
(Co-Founder & Advisor)Has spent time as a Software Engineer at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, and worked on algorithm development at Hudson River Trading. Additionally co-founded and led Beluga, a mobile group messaging solution that was ultimately bought by Facebook, and became Facebook Messenger.
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